Re: Will postfix support blacklistd in NetBSD 9?

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

The postfix code in the netbsd source tree has been patched to support blacklistd. I don't know if
the pkgsrc copy has been patched, but the patch is trivial.

christos

> On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:58 AM, Frédéric Fauberteau <triaxx%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Le 2019-06-10 21:21, christos%astron.com@localhost a écrit :
>> In article <20190610140046.GA15314@localhost>,
>> Mayuresh  <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>>> There was some discussion to this effect last year:
>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2018/05/30/msg020857.html
>>> But did not see it mentioned on the changes page:
>>> https://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-9.0.html
>> We can add it to the changes file (it is already supported)
>>> I think FreeBSD has got it already:
>>> https://www.cryptomonkeys.com/2018/05/freebsd-blacklistd/
>>> Mayuresh
>> christos
> 
> If I understand correctly, programs are patched to support blacklistd. Could we imagine to patch mail/postfix from pkgsrc?
> 
> In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=190602&action=diff:
> (void)blacklist_r(blstate, a, fd, "smtpd");
> Does that mean "smtpd" can be used in location?
> wm0:smtpd       stream  tcp     postfix *       3       24h
> 
> According to this site: https://www.cryptomonkeys.com/2018/05/freebsd-blacklistd/
> I understand that the service name (or number) is used as location.
> 
> But according to this one: https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/63-how-to-use-blacklistd8-with-npf-as-a-fail2ban-replacement
> I no longer understand anything ("postfix" is used as location).
> 
> Fred